Collections Strategist (Arts and Humanities) @ MIT
From: Millicent R Gaskell <mrg_at_MIT.EDU>
COLLECTIONS STRATEGIST (Arts and Humanities)
Collections Strategy and Management
Librarian II/III
The MIT Libraries seeks a Collections Strategist who is an adaptive,
innovative and process-driven strategic thinker. This position
contributes to the Collections Strategy and Management (CSM)
Department’s leadership role in developing a holistic strategy for
collections within the library, publishing and scholarly communities,
and will serve as CSM’s lead strategist for the Arts and Humanities
collections.
The Collections Strategist will participate with department colleagues
in the development and implementation of the Libraries collections
policies and strategies. S/he will manage approval plan content;
participate in prioritizing and spending designated central funds; and
help with the selection of major interdisciplinary resources and
packages. The Strategist will gather and organize collections data from
a variety of tools and sources and coordinate its use in collections
work, and, through analysis and assessment, use it to guide strategy
changes. S/he will also provide leadership to selected
collections-related projects.
The incumbent will join the highly collaborative Arts and Humanities
Community of Practice (A&H CoP), which serves as a forum for the 10
member group to discuss topics of mutual interest to selectors’
communities. Promoting a strategic and holistic approach to collections
work, the Strategist will engage with selectors in building collections,
work with them and provide training to ensure best collections
practices, and help the CoP think about collections work within the
broader context of outreach, access, metadata creation, rights
management and curation. S/he will monitor funds; manage gift/endowed
fund expenditures according to donors’ intent; and contribute to
resource development and donor stewardship including identifying and
articulating collections needs.
The Arts and Humanities at MIT are particularly vibrant and
interdisciplinary, and play a crucial role in an MIT education. The
Collection Strategist will have selection responsibilities for general
subject resources and monographs that serve broad aspects of the A&H
community’s research needs as well as topics that cross subject areas,
such as cultural studies, and will support other library services for
the community. S/he will be engaged with colleagues around significant
issues in the Arts and Humanities and keep abreast of collection trends
and publisher changes.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS for the position include:
· ALA-MLS/MLIS or equivalent advanced degree in library or information
science
· Bachelor’s degree in the Arts or Humanities or significant experience
working with Arts or Humanities collections, including a deep
understanding of the literature and information sources used in one or
more disciplines
· Minimum of five years’ collection development experience in an
academic/research/special library
· Highly developed communication skills, both oral and written,
including experience producing reports and communicating findings for
diverse audiences
· Excellent interpersonal skills, including ability to effectively
collaborate with colleagues
· Evidence of ability or potential to lead change and implement new
services and work methods
· A collaborative approach to problem solving and working across
organizational boundaries
· Strong analytical skills
· Ability to be flexible and to successfully manage competing deadlines
· Experience working with vendors of scholarly research products
· Demonstrated project management skills
Preferred
· Advanced degree in the Arts or Humanities
· Demonstrated vendor negotiation skills
· Grant writing experience
SALARY AND BENEFITS: $61,000 minimum. Actual salary and appointment
level (Librarian II or III) will depend on qualifications and
experience. MIT offers excellent benefits including a choice of health
and retirement plans, a dental plan, tuition assistance and a relocation
allowance. The MIT Libraries afford a flexible and collegial working
environment and foster professional growth of staff with management
training and travel funding for professional meetings.
Apply online at: http://hrweb.mit.edu/staffing/. Applications must
include cover letter, resume, and contact information for three
references. Review of applications will begin June 23, 2014. MIT is
strongly and actively committed to diversity within its community and
particularly encourages applications from qualified women and minority
candidates.
The MIT Libraries support the Institute's programs of research and study
with holdings of more than 2.9 million print volumes and 3.1 million
special format items, and terabytes of MIT-owned digital content. In
addition, rare special collections, Institute records, historical
documents, and papers of noted faculty are held in the Institute
Archives and Special Collections. Library resources and services are
accessible to students and researchers through the Libraries’ website
(http://libraries.mit.edu/), and library spaces are widely available for
both collaborative work and quiet study. Library resources are
supplemented by innovative services for bioinformatics, GIS, metadata,
social science and other research data. Through a culture that
encourages innovation and collaboration, the MIT Libraries are
redefining the role of the 21st century library – making collections
more accessible than ever before, and shaping the future of scholarly
research. Library staff, at all levels, contribute to this spirit of
innovation and to the mission of promoting learning, discovery and the
advancement of knowledge at MIT and beyond.
The Libraries maintain memberships and affiliations in ArchivesSpace,
arXiv, Association of Research Libraries, the BorrowDirect, Boston
Library Consortium, DDI Alliance, DuraSpace, HathiTrust, CLIR/Digital
Library Federation, Coalition of Networked Information, Coalition of
Open Access Policy Institutions, EDUCAUSE, National Digital Stewardship
Alliance, NISO, North East Research Libraries, OCLC Research Library
Partnership, and ORCID. The Libraries utilize Ex Libris’ Aleph for its
integrated library system and have recently deployed EBSCO’s Discovery
Service. DSpace_at_MIT, a digital repository developed over the past ten
years by the MIT Libraries, serves to capture, preserve and communicate
the intellectual output of MIT's faculty and research community. Other
MIT repositories include: Dome, a second DSpace instance, providing
access to a sizable image collection and other digital collections owned
by the MIT Libraries; the MIT Geodata Repository for a diverse
collection of GIS Data; and MIT’s DataVerse for licensed social science
datasets.
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Robin M. Deadrick
Human Resources Administrator
MIT Libraries
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Room 14S-324
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
617.253.9322
Received on Fri Jun 13 2014 - 03:02:16 EDT